Just 3 kilometres north of Coromandel Town, set into native bush is New Zealand's only mountain railway and its steepest track climbing up 173 metres above sea level to a lookout.
The Railway was hand-built by famous potter and painter Barry Brickell, and zigzags its way up the hillside, through three tunnels, over five viaducts and bridges.
Barry Brickell was a great conservationist and his aim in 1973 was to restore his pine-infested farmland to its pre-European state, planting thousands of kauri, rimu and totara trees
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